Yep, that made sense when it was a “mere” microcontroller, but in computerland it’s not the best option. Actually it’s bad. There are add-ons that can be attached, but I doubt you can stuff them in there.

So, the competition (from Google in this case) really works miracles.

Indeed. However the root problem were CPU and other hw drivers AFAIK, not Google. Making their own SoC made it possible to bypass those greedy manufacturers and extend support.

I’m looking forward to January, 17th to wake up with news that 3 days special op ended. /s Edit: That date should probably be 21st of January I guess.

Please don’t give them ideas. They have to fix core issue first - catalogue quality where albums from same named bands are often attributed to wrong ones.